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U.S. Geological Survey, 199808, Generalized geology of the Former Soviet Union (geo1): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470E, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado.This is part of the following larger work.
Persits, F. M. , Ulmishek, G. F. , and Steinshouer, D. W. , 1998, Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields and geological provinces of the Former Soviet Union: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470E, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado.This is part of the following larger work.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1998, World energy data on CD-ROM: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-470.Online Links:
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
The map projection used is Equidistant Conic.
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 1
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is N/A.
The ellipsoid used is Krasovsky.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378245.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.301.
| Value | Definition |
|---|---|
| Q | Quaternary (undivided) |
| QT | Quaternary and Tertiary |
| N | Neogene |
| NPg | Neogene and Paleogene |
| Pg | Paleogene |
| PgK | Paleogene and Cretaceous |
| K | Cretaceous (undivided) |
| KJ | Cretaceous and Jurassic |
| J | Jurassic (undivided) |
| JTr | Jurassic and Triassic |
| Tr | Triassic |
| Pz | Paleozoic (undivided) |
| P | Permian |
| TrP | Triassic and Permian |
| PC | Permian to Carboniferous |
| C | Carboniferous |
| CD | Carboniferous and Devonian |
| D | Devonian (undivided) |
| DS | Devonian and Silurian |
| S | Silurian |
| SO | Silurian to Ordovician |
| O | Ordovician |
| OCm | Ordovician to Cambrian |
| Cm | Cambrian |
| pC | Precambrian (undivided) |
| CmPt | Cambrian to Proterozoic |
| Pt | Proterozoic |
| Z | Upper Proterozoic |
| Y | Upper and Middle Proterozoic |
| X | Lower and Middle Proterozoic |
| A | Archean |
| Qv | Extrusive rocks, Pliocene and Quaternary |
| TKi | Acidic intrusive rocks, Creteceous, Paleogene and Neogene |
| Mi | Acidic Mesozoic intrusive rocks |
| Pi | Paleozoic intrusive rocks |
| PtAi | Acidic Proterozoic and Archean intrusive rocks |
| ii | Basic, Ultrabasic and Alkaline intrusive rocks of unknown age |
| oth | Areas outside of the former Soviet Union |
| Ice | Arctic areas covered by Ice |
| Sea | Sea and large lakes |
| H2O | Lakes and wide rivers |
Digital Map Compilation - Feliks Persits
Geological Attribution - Feliks Persits, Douglas Steinshouer
Province Boundaries - Gregory Ulmishek
Province Boundaries Digital Compilation - Lee Osmonson
Oil and Gas Database - Tim Klett
Metadata - Feliks Persits, B.S. Larson
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Although a geologic map displays the geographic distribution of the different geologic units and rock types for numerous purposes, this data set is compiled primarily for the World Energy Project as part of a required strategic base for assessing the petroleum potential of this region. For this purpose, the map basically provides an outline of the general geographic distribution of both known or hypothetical petroleum-potential formations and units, i.e., sedimentary rocks and basins, and areas containing igneous and metamorphic rocks which have virtually little or no potential. The map is also compiled, in part, to provide a basis for outlining the geographic and petroleum provinces of coverage PROV1. This basic geologic data set, combined with others, such as tectonic and burial histories, distribution of known oil and gas fields, distribution and quality of reservoir rocks, organic geochemistry, etc., will ultimately define the basis for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Former Soviet Union.
Vsesoyuzniy Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Geologicheskiy Institute (VSEGEI), 1966, Geologic Map of The USSR, scale 1:7,500,000: Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Leningrad, USSR.
Data sources used in this process:
FPERSITS DISSOLVE RUS_ALL_FCC RUS_ALL_FCD GLG FPERSITS RENAME RUS_ALL_FCD RUS_ALL_L FPERSITS CLEAN RUS_ALL_L RUS_ALL_LC 0.0 750. FPERSITS BUILD RUS_ALL_LC FPERSITS LABELERRORS RUS_ALL_LC FPERSITS CREATELABELS RUS_ALL_LC 55000 FPERSITS CLEAN RUS_ALL_LC RUS_ALL_LCC 0.0 250. FPERSITS BUILD RUS_ALL_LCC FPERSITS RENAME RUS_ALL_LCC RUS_ALL_L FPERSITS LABELERRORS RUS_ALL_L FPERSITS COPY RUS_ALL_L /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/RUS_GEO/RUS_ALL_L FPERSITS RENAME RUS_ALL_L GEO1 FPERSITS COPY GEO1 ARC_COVR/GEO1 FPERSITS ARCEDIT /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/RUS_GEO/ARC_COVR/GEO1 FPERSITS ARCEDIT /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/RUS_GEO/ARC_COVR/GEO1N FPERSITS TOLERANCE GEO1N FPERSITS TOLERANCE GEO1N SNAP 1500 FPERSITS TOLERANCE GEO1N FPERSITS CLEAN GEO1N GEO1N 0 1000 FPERSITS BUILD GEO1N FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1N FPERSITS BUILD GEO1N FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1N FPERSITS CREATELABELS GEO1N 25000 FPERSITS BUILD GEO1N FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1N FPERSITS BUILD GEO1N FPERSITS RENAME GEO1N GEO1 FPERSITS CLEAN GEO1 GEO1C 0 1000 FPERSITS BUILD GEO1C FPERSITS RENAME GEO1C GEO1 FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1 FPERSITS CREATELABELS GEO1 25500 FPERSITS BUILD GEO1 FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1 FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1 FPERSITS EXPORT COVER GEO1 /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/RUS_GEO/EXPORT/GEO1 NONE FPERSITS UNGENERATE POLY GEO1 /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/RUS_GEO/GEO1.GEN FPERSITS LABELERRORS GEO1 FPERSITS COPY GEO1 /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/OF97470E/ARC_COVR/GEO1 FPERSITS COPY GEO1 /ACCOUNTS2/FPERSITS/OF97470E/FSU/ARC_COVR/GEO1 BILLL DOCUMENT GEO1 CREATE BILLL
Overall accuracy is based on accuracy of general geology coverage.
Since all the attributes are of character type, only
correctness of polygon labelling can be provided (see below).
Attributes and contacts are verified via visual editing and review.
A minimum of two reviewers examine and compare digital versions
versus orignal material.
A comparison between color plot and original paper map was
carried out by visual comparison. Color plots in 1:7,500,000
scale were superimposed on each of corresponding original
map sheets. All errors detected in attributes were corrected.
1. Original geological maps are of 750 meter maximum accuracy
(0.1 mm on paper map of 1:7,500,000 scale)
2. Scanned images are of 200 dot/inch resolution
(0.1 mm on paper). That is why fuzzy tolerance for CLEAN
programm in ARC/INFO is set to 1500 m (two pixels).
3. Several steps are taken to vectorize scanned images.
The projection and coordinate system for the original map
are not given. Therefore it is necessary to georeference
the map to real world coordinates. This is done as follows:
3.1. The latitude/longitude graticule with cell size 4 * 6 degree
is projected to Equidistant Conic projection and then used to
create ARC/INFO point coverage. That point coverage is used
to create "to - from" links by ARC/INFO CONTROLPOINTS program.
3.2 A gray-scale scanned image of the original paper map is
transformed to Equidistant Conic projection by ARC/INFO GRIDWARP
program (polynomial of the second order) using the "to - from"
links created by CONTROLPOINTS program.
3.3 The scanned image from the second step is vectorized by
the method of extraction of linear features described by F.Persits,
1997, (USGS open-file report OF-97-713), and then corrected by
hands-on digitization.
3.4 A series of piecewise "rubbersheet" transformations are
applied to the final ARC/INFO coverage. The ARC/INFO coverages
that are used for transformation were ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3 million GIS
cartographic layers.
Overall position error is estimated with a randomly selected set
of locations on the ESRI coverages and comparing the same locations on
the final geology coverage (geo1). RMS error is 4.8 km (0.64 mm
of the original paper map) with maximum error about 12 km (1.6 mm
on original paper map).
N/A
Polygon topology present.
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USGS Open-File Report 97-470E
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| Data format: | ARCE (ARC/INFO Export), ARC (ARC/INFO coverage), ARCG (ARC/INFO Ungenerate), and AVSHP (ArcView Shapefile). (version ARC/INFO 7.0.4, ArcView 3.0, ArcExplorer 1.1) |
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